Theory

A collection of Essays, Articles and Ruminations on the nature of digital cinema and an investigation into new theoretical structures for filmmakers. This page is also home to ongoing PhD thesis research work and drafts in development.

Vanishing Point
Spatial Composition and the Virtual Camera

Defining cinema and its uniqueness
Is Mise en Scene unique to cinema? What deifnes cinema as unqiue and how do we deliver a functonal, technology-independant, defintion of cinema?

Mise en Scene as Technology
Reconnecting the art with the technical

Mise en Space
Making and Watching through different frames

Cinematic Metadata
New frameworks of thinking about the moving image.

Cinema Space
Definition, Form and Problem

Cinema and Computer Gaming - The Macro-Mise en Scene (PDF)
For some time the influence of cinema on computer gaming has been immediately recognizable but recent years have seen a reversal of this movement. (paper from the Imaginary Worlds conference - UTS 2005)

PhD research bibliography
Selected Bibliography informing current PhD research work.

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